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Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible
BACKGROUND: This study aimed at identifying components of the household health costs. METHODS: This study was a qualitative research conducted in two main phases. The first phase consisted of interviews with sample households selected in eight provinces of Iran. They were to identify components of t...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060744 |
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author | YOUSEFI, Mehdi ASSARI ARANI, Abbas SAHABI, Bahram KAZEMNEJAD, Anoshirvan FAZAELI, Somayeh |
author_facet | YOUSEFI, Mehdi ASSARI ARANI, Abbas SAHABI, Bahram KAZEMNEJAD, Anoshirvan FAZAELI, Somayeh |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study aimed at identifying components of the household health costs. METHODS: This study was a qualitative research conducted in two main phases. The first phase consisted of interviews with sample households selected in eight provinces of Iran. They were to identify components of the household health costs. In the second phase, components were determined as direct, indirect and intangible based on a content analysis. RESULTS: In the first phase of the study, 93 components of households’ health costs were identified. According to the content analysis, 44 components were categorized as direct costs, 10 components were indirect and 39 components were categorized as intangible. CONCLUSION: All components of households’ health costs including: direct, indirect and intangible costs, should be considered in the planning and policy-making in the health system. |
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spelling | pubmed-44506882015-06-09 Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible YOUSEFI, Mehdi ASSARI ARANI, Abbas SAHABI, Bahram KAZEMNEJAD, Anoshirvan FAZAELI, Somayeh Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: This study aimed at identifying components of the household health costs. METHODS: This study was a qualitative research conducted in two main phases. The first phase consisted of interviews with sample households selected in eight provinces of Iran. They were to identify components of the household health costs. In the second phase, components were determined as direct, indirect and intangible based on a content analysis. RESULTS: In the first phase of the study, 93 components of households’ health costs were identified. According to the content analysis, 44 components were categorized as direct costs, 10 components were indirect and 39 components were categorized as intangible. CONCLUSION: All components of households’ health costs including: direct, indirect and intangible costs, should be considered in the planning and policy-making in the health system. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4450688/ /pubmed/26060744 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article YOUSEFI, Mehdi ASSARI ARANI, Abbas SAHABI, Bahram KAZEMNEJAD, Anoshirvan FAZAELI, Somayeh Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title | Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title_full | Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title_fullStr | Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title_full_unstemmed | Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title_short | Household Health Costs: Direct, Indirect and Intangible |
title_sort | household health costs: direct, indirect and intangible |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060744 |
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